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copyright, 1889, 
By John W. Lovell. 



DEDICATION. 



TO 

THE ONE 

WHO TAUGHT ME HOW TO UNVEIL TRUTH 

AND MADE ME ACQUAINTED WITH 

THE GRAND SECRET OF THE 

FIRE OF LIFE, 

AND IN WHOSE WORK I BEHOLD THE 

PROPHECY OF WHAT " SHE " (tHE 

church) is YET TO BE, 

the author gratefully and reverently 

dedicates 

the following pages. 



As many as I love, I reprove and chasten : be 
zealous therefore, and repent. 

Behold, I stand at the door, and knock : if any 
man hear my voice, and open the door, 1 will come 
in to him, and will sup with him, and he with me. 

He that overcometh, I will give to him to sit 
down with me in my throne, as I also overcame, 
and sat down with my Father in his throne. 

He that hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit 
saith to the churches. Rev. iii. 19-22. 



The scholar is unfurnished who has only literary 
weapons. * * * He will have to answer cer- 
tain questions, which I must jilainly tell you cannot 
be staved off. For all men, all women, time, your 
country, your condition, the invisible world, are the 
interrogators : IVho arc you P What do you ? Cafi 
you ohfain ivhaf you wish ? Is there method in your 
consciousness P Can you see tendency in your life P 

Can you help any soul P 

Emerson. 



"SHE": 

AN ALLEGORY OF THE CHURCH- 



The author of this remarkable book says : 
" At first I was incHned to beheve that this 
history of a woman, clothed in the majesty of 
her almost endless years, on whom the 
shadow of eternity itself lay like the dark 
wing of night, was some gigantic allegory of 
which I could not catch the meaning." This 
conception was followed by others, until he 
abandoned the attempt to interpret, saying : 
" To me the story seems to bear the stamp 
of truth upon its face. Its explanation I 
must leave to others." 

I accept this task ; and am quite confi- 
dent that what follows also bears upon its 
face the image of truth. 



8 ''SHE": AN ALLEGORY OF THE CHURCH. 

I do not believe anything could be written 
and so widely read, without being the vehicle 
to the world of some vital, spiritual truth. 
Here is a casket of gems. I have found the 
key to the treasure. Wild and extravagant as 
the story may seem, it has found its way to 
more readers than any other book of the 
period. It seems to be full of superstition, 
and yet it has captured an age whose boast 
it is to have outgrown superstition. High 
and low, rich and poor, learned and un- 
learned, romantic and pedantic, young and 
old, have all been caught by the marvellous 
fascination of " She." 

What is the secret of its power 1 Let us 
look and see. 

Kallikrates, a Greek by birth, who had 
become a priest of Isis in Egypt, whose 
service demanded strictest celibacy, fell in 
love with one of the beautiful daughters of 
the Nile, Amenartas by name. Overcome 
with desire, he broke his vows to Isis, and, 



'^SHE" : AN ALLEGORY OF THE CHURCH. g 

to escape the penalty of death, fled with his 
love into the interior of Africa. In this 
land of Kor, to which he came, dwelt " She." 
How she came there we are not told. It 
was a land of ruins, though once inhabited 
by a mighty people, who had attained to 
great wisdom and power. When " She " 
reached this strange country, she found 
there was still one man who was possessed 
of this rare knowledge of the past, all the 
rest having died of a great plague, or by 
intercourse with barbarians sunk into can- 
nibalism. This man was a hermit, and a 
philosopher skilled in the secrets of Nature, 
and the discoverer of a Mysterious Fire, far 
in the bowels of the earth, which is Nature's 
blood and life, and in which whoever bathed 
therein and breathed thereof should live 
while Nature lives. Him did "She" be- 
guile with her beauty and her wit, and flatter 
with her tongue until he revealed to her 
this great secret and all that he knew of 



lO "SHE"' : AN- ALLEGORY OF THE CHURCH. 

the wonderful secrets of Nature — and that 
was much — for the man was wise and very 
ancient, and, by purity and abstinence, and 
the contemplation of his innocent mind, 
had worn thin the veil between that which 
we see and the great invisible truths, the 
whisper of whose wings at times we hear as 
they sweep through the gross air of the 
world. But on no account would he bathe 
or permit " She " to bathe in the Fire of 
Life. 

At last he died, and then " She " met 
Kallikrates (who had wandered to this land 
with the beautiful Egyptian, Amenartas), 
and learned to love for the first and last 
time, once and forever. So that it entered 
into her mind to bathe with Kallikrates in 
the all-potent Fire, and live in this dream 
of love for aye. Descending into the bowels 
of the earth for this purpose, with Kalli- 
krates and Amenartas, " She " gathered up 
all her courage, and, courting death to per- 



SHE'' : AN ALLEGORY OF THE CHURCH. 1 1 

chance win so glorious a crown of life, 
stepped into the flames, and, behold ! she 
came forth undying and lovely beyond 
imagining. Then did she stretch out her 
arms to Kallikrates and bid him take her as 
his immortal bride. But, though blinded by 
her beauty, he turned from her to Amenar- 
tas. Then a great fury filled " She," and, 
in the very place of life, she slew him. 
Amenartas, protected by the gods, escaped 
her fury and fled the country. In a distant 
land she gave birth to a child, who was 
called The Avenger. To him she told her 
story, the record of which was placed on a 
fragment of Egyptian pottery. This, to- 
gether with some linen from the tombs of 
Kor, a scarab, or jewel, bearing the motto, 
" Royal Son of the Sun," was handed down 
from father to son for two thousand years. 

At length it came into the hands of Leo 
Vincey, who, together with his guardian 
Holly, resolved to unravel the mystery of 



12 " SHE " ; AN ALLEGOR Y OF THE CHURCH. 

this strange inheritance. During all this 
time " She " had dwelt in the caves of Kor, 
worshipping the body of Kallikrates, which, 
by her great knowledge of chemistry, she 
had preserved as natural as life, and ruling 
over a strange and savage people, until, 
through their fear of her awful power, what- 
ever her command they received it as com- 
ing from She-who-must-be-obeyed. It was 
the custom of this people, whenever any 
strangers invaded their country, to put hot 
pots on their heads, and afterwards to cook 
and devour them as food. This would have 
been the fate of Leo and Holly had not 
*' She " perceived their coming. Even this 
protection would have failed Leo, had not 
one of these savage maidens, Ustane by 
name, who had fallen in love with him at 
sight, protected his life at the risk of her own. 
After innumerable hardships and many 
hairbreadth escapes, Leo and Holly reach 
the cave of " She." 



" SHE'' : AN ALLEGORY OF THE CHURCH. 13 

At first " She " is so taken up with Holly 
that she is ignorant that Kallikrates has 
returned to life again in the person of Leo. 
At this time Leo is sick unto death. " She " 
discovers this just in time, and, by adminis- 
tering a potent remedy, saves his life. Jeal- 
ous of Ustane, " She " slays her, though Leo 
truely loved the savage maiden, overpowers 
and brings him to her feet in the very pres- 
ence of the corpse. They then go to bathe 
together in the Fire of Life, into which 
" She," to give Leo courage, enters first ; 
this time not to live but to perish, though 
as she dies her last words charge Leo to 
wait for her because she will come again, 
more beautiful than before. Leo's golden 
locks turn white in the intensity of his suf- 
fering. Still he has enshrined her in his 
heart of hearts, imbibed some of the potent 
fire and lives afterwards true to her memory, 
waiting for the day when they shall be re- 
united. 



14 " SHE'' : AN ALLEGORY OF THE CHURCH. 

It is a strange, weird story, told with a 
wealth of imagination, a splendid defiance 
of all ordinary standards of the probable, a 
breadth of eloquence and poetic charm that 
are quite indescribable. 

Do you say, On what authority do you 
undertake to interpret the story ? I answer, 
I feel somewhat akin to the spirit of the 
author. I invite and invoke the same power 
that made him the instrument of its telling 
to make me the instrument of its explana- 
tion. I am in love with " She " ; through all 
her apparent evil, I penetrate to the all 
good. I am, in feeling, as though I was Leo, 
determined to solve the mystery of my in- 
heritance. I take for my companion Holly, 
my faithful guardian, who to me is the 
symbol of external intellect and Science. 
My inheritance is Truth. From a child I 
have sought through dangers and hardships 
— justly and truly symbolized by those 
through which Leo passed — to possess and 



" SHE : " AN ALLEGOK Y OF THE CHURCH. j 5 

understand Truth. Amid the ruins of Kor 
to which Leo penetrated was a beautiful 
statue carved out of pure white marble, 
representing the winged figure of a woman 
of wondrous loveliness. She was bending 
forward and poising herself upon her half- 
spread wings as though to preserve her 
balance as she leaned ; her arms out- 
stretched as though about to embrace one 
she dearly loved, while her whole attitude 
gave an impression of the tenderest beseech- 
ing. Her perfect and most gracious form 
was naked save the face, which was thinly 
veiled, so that it was difficult to trace the 
marking of the features. A gauzy veil was 
thrown about the head, and, of its two ends, 
one fell down across her left breast, which 
was outlined beneath it, while the other 
streamed away behind her upon the air. 
The pedestal on which she rested was a 
huge round ball of stone and the whole was 
to represent Truth standing on the world, 



1 6 " SHE'" : AN ALLEGORY OF THE CIJURCH. 

calling to her children to unveil her face, 
At the foot of the statue was the followinor 

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inscription : 

Is there iio 7nan that will draw my veil 

and look upon my face, for it is very fair ? 

Unto him zvho drazvs my veil shall I be^ and 

peace will I give him, and sweet children of 

hiowledge and good works. 

And a voice cried: " Though all those 
who seek after thee desire thee, behold I Vir- 
gin art thou, and Virgin shalt thou go till 
Time be done. No man is there born of 
woman zvho may drazu thy veil and live, nor 
shall be. By Death only can thy veil be 
drawn. Oh Truth!' 

A7id Truth stretched out her arms aud 
zvept, because those zvho sought her might not 
fnd her, 710 r look 7ipo7i her face to face. 

Now to the wise these words have other 
meaning than that whicli first presents itself, 
and in reading this hidden wisdom lies the 
interpretation of " She." To know the per- 



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" SHE'' : AN ALLEGOR Y OF THE CHURCH. i y 

feet Truth, to unveil all her divine beauty 
and have her as thine own bride, you must 
first die and pass into eternity. But to do 
this it is by no means necessary to wait for 
what we have called death. It is possible 
to be dead to sense even in life, and to find 
the eternal 7iow, in which there are neither to- 
morrows nor yesterdays, in what men have 
called time. To acknowled2:e and live no 
more after the flesh, but after the Spirit, is 
to take Truth for your bride. 

This is the mystery of Godliness — God- 
like-ness. 

Know yourself as the Christ did — as 
Spirit. Deny the truth of the false, and the 
reality of the unreal. Let this outer sense- 
life be nailed to the Cross until you say " It 
is finished." This is the simple way of 
Truth, and yet I cannot say it is easy. 
No one who is earnest need miss the way, 
and yet it is true that many are called, but 
few chosen. There is a way that seemeth 



1 8 " SHE '' : AN- ALLEGOR Y OF THE CHURCH 

right unto man, but the end thereof is 
death. This is the way of sense. The way 
of Spirit is the death of sense. This is the 
one lesson of the Cross of Christ — its Alpha 
and Omega. 

Who of those who call themselves Christ- 
ians have unveiled this Truth .? 

As I look out over the earth I see, here 
and there, one who has read the secret, and, 
with the light of the eternal morn flashing 
upon upturned faces, eager hands are about 
to rend away the last thin veil that obscures 
to our world the full beauty of Truth. This 
is the veil that must be rent in twain before 
any can pass into the Holy of Holies, and 
stand face to face with Truth. 

The ruined City of Kor represents the 
modern world, and "She" the Church — who 
has become the sole guardian of Truth 
without knowing its full meaning, and pos- 
sessor of the Secret of Eternal Life without 
dispensing it. 



''SHE'' : AN ALLEGORY OF THE CHURCH 19 

The origin of " She " is shrouded in 
mystery. How she came to this strange 
country she tells us not. So also is there 
a cloud of mystery hanging about the 
beginning of the Christian Church. Back of 
Christianity stands Judaism. In conversa- 
tion with Holly concerning the Jews, " She " 
said: " They broke my heart, and made 
me look with evil eyes across the world, 
and drove me to this wilderness. When I 
would have taught them wisdom in Jerusa- 
lem they stoned me, ay, at the gate of the 
Temple, those white-bearded hypocrites and 
rabbis hounded the people on to stone me." 

Back of Judaism is Egypt and Moses 
learned in all its wonderous lore. The 
Greeks and Egyptians interchanged their 
knowledge. Pythagoras and Plato both 
studied in Egypt. From Egypt we are led 
back across the centuries into a still greater 
antiquity — to races and civilizations more 
wonderful than any that exist to-day, and 



20 " SHE'' : AN ALLEGORY OF THE CHURCH. 

that have totally disappeared. Back of the 
Christian Church we find also the schools 
of the Essenes and earlier Gnostics. All our 
Christian ceremonies are a mingling of 
Egyptian, Pagan, and Jewish rites with the 
new and truer methods taught by Jesus. 

I do not wish to go into historic particu- 
lars, for I am in search of the Spirit rather 
than of the letter. When " She " bathed 
in the Fire of Life her veins were filled 
with jealousy — as she declares, just before 
entering the second time. " When first I 
tasted of its virtue, full was my heart of pas- 
sion and of hatred of that Egyptian Ame- 
nartas, and therefore, despite my strivings 
to be rid thereof, have passion and hatred 
been stamped upon my soul from that sad 
hour to this. But now is my mood a happy 
mood, and filled am I with the purest part 
of thought, and so would I ever be." 

Passion filled her veins because she was 
in love with the outward form of this hand- 



" SHE " ; AN ALLEGOR V OF THE CHURCH. 2 1 

some Greek priest of Isis, and far two thou- 
sand years she hved in the tombs of Kor, 
worshipping his dead body. Herein is most 
wonderfully symbolized tlije weakness of the 
Church. It has debased a pure spiritual 
love with physical passion. It has hovered 
and gloated over the body, suffering and 
death of the Jesus rather than lifting up its 
thought and love to the eternal Christ. Phys- 
ical passion, physical blood — our theology is 
incarnadined and saturated with gore. Our 
Catholic churches and all Christian art 
repeat over and over every horrible detail of 
the physical sufferings of Jesus and cloud 
thereby the spiritual and redeeming power of 
the Truth he taught. Every Good-Friday 
we nail his body again to the tree, every 
Easter we take it out of the tomb, every 
Christmas we think more of the miracle of 
his birth than of the Truth he came to 
make manifest. This error was in the viens 
of the Church when, as embodied in Juda- 



2 2 ''SHE'' : AN ALLEGORY OF THE CEURCH. 

ism, ecclesiastical passion and envy slew 
Jesus. They looked for a physical re- 
deemer ; one who should free them from 
the Roman yoke ; but his kingdom was 
spiritual. 

" She " offered Kallikrates the charm of 
external beauty made undying. So the 
Jews offered Jesus external power and tri- 
umph. As Kallikrates turned to the love 
of his soul (Amenartas), so did Jesus turn 
to his spiritual ideal, saying, " My king- 
dom is not of this world. To this end have 
I been born, and to this end am I come into 
the world, that I should bear witness unto 
the Truth." He had rent from Truth the last 
veil that obscured her matchless and radiant 
face. Living, yet was he dead unto the 
flesh. No one could convince him of sin. 

Why, then, did he die ? Ah, the blind- 
ness of our mortality ! Following out the 
vain imaginings of external intellect, many 
occult students have taught that Jesus had 



''SHE'' : AN ALLEGORY OF THE CHURCH. 23 

to die because he was capable of anger, 
citino: the instance of the fio; tree — not see- 
ing the purely spiritual import of his words 
in relation to that incident. 

Why did he, over whom death had no 
power, die ? Because no one would have 
believed he had conquered death unless he 
had demonstrated it after some such man- 
ner as he did, by permitting them to crucify 
him and then rising from the tomb. He 
taught publicly that there was no need to 
die if we would die unto the flesh while yet 
living, and live only unto the Spirit. " Who- 
soever liveth and believeth in me shall 
never die." " If a man keep my saying he 
shall never taste of death." 

This was too good news to believe, and 
to give possibility to faith, he said, " Destroy 
this temple (meaning his body), and in 
three days I will raise it up again. I 
is the Spirit that quickeneth, the flesh 
profiteth nothing ; the words that I have 



24 '"SHE" : AN ALLEGORY OF THE CHURCH. 

spoken unto you are Spirit and are life." 
Notwithstanding the declaration of Jesus, 
the Church that received his Truth has taken 
as its trust his literal fiesh and blood, and 
the largest part of the Church claims by a 
perpetual miracle to constantly keep in 
stock a supply of the same. Jesus died to 
demonstrate that if we would take the 
Truth he taught and live the life he lived, 
we need not die. We call ourselves Christ- 
ians, and yet so long as we are subject to 
sickness and death, we Q:ive the lie to our 
own profession. We have not yet learned 
the meanins: of the words : " The kinQ:dom 
of heaven is within." Our thoughts and 
hopes are still projected outwards. The 
Fire of Immortal Life was made manifest 
by a true prophet of God, but the Church 
that received it, like " She," was not in a fit 
state of mind for its perfect work. It gave 
outward form and power rather than in- 
ward truth and love. 



♦' SHE " .• AN ALLEGOR Y OF THE CHURCH. 2 5 

When " She " first unveiled to Holly, she 
seemed to say : " Behold me, lovely as no 
woman was or is, undying and half divine ; 
memory haunts me from age to age, and 
passion leads me by the hand ; evil have I 
done, and with sorrow have I made ac- 
quaintance from age to age, and from age 
to age evil I shall do, and sorrow shall I 
know till my redemption comes." 

Behold the Church, lovely as no other 
power ever was or is. Egypt, Babylon, 
Persia, Greece, Rome — none of the mighty 
empires of the past are to be compared to 
her. All that is best among all the living, 
o;rowins: nations of the modern world is of 
the Church : the finest buildinsfs in all our 
cities, the free gifts of loving hearts; her 
spires the jewels in every landscape ; her 
charities smoothing the pillows of the sick, 
comforting with hope the dying, caring for 
widow and orphan. Her truth, though 
clouded with error, giving wing to the 



26 ''SHE'' : AN ALLEGORY OF THE CHURCH. 

loftiest flights of genius, pathos to sublim- 
est utterances of oratory, most entrancing 
harmonies to music, and noblest themes to 
art. And yet, passion has debased her 
love. Cruel death in dungeon, at the 
stake, in civil strife and awful carnage, are 
the evils she has done. Watching through 
the asfes for the resurrection of her Lord — 

O 

his return in glory and triumph — in doubt 
and denial — has been her sorrow. 

As came the redemption of " She," even 
so shall come that of the Church. How did 
it come } — through Leo and Holly. 

We are told that, outwardly, Holly was 
as ugly as Leo was handsome. One was 
called The Greek God, the other Charon, the 
Boatman of The Styx. By the wild people 
over whom " She " ruled one was called 
Lion, and the other Baboon. Holly was the 
guardian of Leo. 

Who are these two ? Let me tell you : 
one is Science ; the other Intuition. 



"SJ/E"' .' A AT ALLEGORY OF THE CHURCH. 27 

A short time after Leo was born Holly 
received him in charge, also a mysterious 
casket, from the child's father. The father 
of Intuition is Conscience. Holly was the 
friend of Leo's father — so Science has been 
the friend of Conscience. In the knowledo[;e 
of the past, obtained by loyalty to external 
intellect, Science had in its keeping (a 
long time before it knew the meaning of the 
possession) the few hints of Truth that will 
yet guide it, together with Intuition, to the 
redemption of the Church and of the world. 
Though Holly was outwardly ugly, yet he 
was at heart true and honest. So is Science 
in its proper sphere. It has tried through 
the theory of evolution to relate us to a 
monkey form, and would have succeeded 
but for Intuition, which has brought back 
to us the knowledge of our royal ancestry, 
our Divine parentage. 

Our author says : " There appears to be 
nothing in the character of Leo Vincey 



28 " SHE-" : AN ALLEGORY OF THE CHURCH. 

which, in the opinion of most people, would 
have been likely to attract an intellect so 
powerful as that of ' She.' But the explana- 
tion of this is that ' She,' seeing further 
than we can see, perceived the germ and 
smouldering spark of greatness which lay 
hidden within her lover's soul, and well 
knew that under the influence of her gift of 
life, watered by her wisdom and shone upon 
with the sunshine of her presence, it would 
bloom like a flower and flash out like a star, 
fillino^ the world with frao^rance and liofht" 

This is most prophetically true, and that 
flower is now at the bud. Some who can 
see with prophetic vision have, like the wise 
men of the East, already beheld that star. 

When the mysterious box was opened, 
Holly cast discredit upon the whole thing ; 
but Leo immediately resolved to go, and at 
any cost solve the mystery. In spite of 
every difficulty, of every doubt cast upon 
the probability of the truth of the strange 



" SHE ■ ' ; AN ALLEGOR V OF THE CHURCH. 2 9 

Story by Holly, Leo never doubted it for a 
moment. He knew it was true and always 
expected to find the object of their search. 
It was a stransre inheritance : A frasfment 
of pottery, a weird story of a glorious and 
royal ancestry, and one solitary jewel, bear- 
ing the legend Tke Royal Son of the Sun. 
Such is the mysterious inheritance of the 
children of Intuition to-day. A fragment 
of truth from out the past that carries 
us back to Egypt — " Out of Egypt have I 
called my son." A jewel bearing a device 
whose full meaning we have not yet fath- 
omed — " Now are we the children of God, 
and it is not yet made manifest what we 
shall be." To the righteous God is a sun — 
to the wicked, a consuming fire. This is the 
Fire of Life — the baptism of Love and Truth 
— but before we bathe in it we must be sure 
we are ready. A few to-day have laid these 
things to heart, and have actually accepted 
them. Faith is not yet dead on the earth. 



30 "S//£": AN ALLEGORY OF THE CHURCH. 

Under the heroic constancy and devotion 
of Science to Truth, Intuition has grown 
from childhood to youth. He has been made 
acquainted with the splendor and marvellous 
possibilities of his inheritance. Together 
with Science, his faithful guardian, he has 
started on the eventful journey that is to 
clear up the mystery surrounding it. This 
is well. Intuition must not despise Science 
They must journey together. They have in 
the past been divorced. Leo's father — that 
is. Conscience — went on this same enter- 
prise alone, and, as a consequence, returned 
defeated, and yet he went far enough, in 
what -he saw and heard, to strengthen his 
faith. After this, he married a beautiful 
bride (Religious Enthusiasm), from which 
union, at the cost of his mother's life, Leo 
was born. Unable to endure the sight of 
the child, the father sought, through study, 
to gain the knowledge the absence of which 
rendered abortive his attempt to penetrate 



''SHE'' : AN ALLEGORY OE THE CHURCH. 31 

the mystery of his inheritance. But the 
hand of death was upon him, and, before 
dying, he made the arrangements that in- 
sured a partnership between his son Leo 
(Intuition) and his new friend Holly 
(Science). In the past there have been 
many failures through the lack of this union. 
How many, with some light of Intuition, 
have failed to read the full meaning of life 
through discarding Science. This was the 
weakness of the Church in the spiritual 
awakening at the birth of Methodism. 
When the enthusiasm and power of the 
Spirit was upon it Science was treated as an 
enemy instead of an ally. At the birth of 
Unitarianism Channing almost united the 
two, but leaned a little too much on Science, 
while his successors have leaned more and 
more until the majority of them prefer 
Science to faith. But for the enthusiasm and 
faith of Leo, Holly would have stayed in 
the comfortable cloisters of Cambridge. So 



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•SHE'" : AN ALLEGORY OF THE CHURCH. 



we find many hugging the delights of cult- 
ure and the seclusion of the scholar's life, 
instead of making the heroic attempt to re- 
generate the Church and the world. Some 

o 

who have espoused this cause in the name 
of Christian Science are also leaning more 
upon Science than Intuition, preferring 
Holly to Leo. All is Mind, they affirm, 
and forget Love ; and so, instead of union, 
we find separation — instead of faith leading 
onward to redemption, doubt is retarding 
the great movement. As Emerson says : 
" If in your metaphysics you have denied 
personality to the Deity ; yet, when the de- 
vout emotions of the soul come, yield to 
them, heart and life, though they should 
clothe God with shape and color, leave 
your theory, as Joseph his coat in the hand 
of the harlot, and flee." 

Some, like Swedenborg, have gone half 
way into the mysterious continent, but have 
never penetrated to the centre. Had Leo 



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gone no further after he met Ustane he 
would have been the representative of many 
a true son of Intuition, like Swedenborg^ 
and Andrew Jackson Davis. 

When the storm swept Leo from the boat 
it was Holly's strong hand that rescued 
him. Intuition needs Science and Science 
needs Intuition. 

Holly and Leo were accompanied by a 
faithful servant, Job, who symbolizes practi- 
cal every-day life. There is a strong 
temptation to start out on this search with- 
out such a companion. Many who have 
caught a glimpse of the glory of our spirit- 
ual inheritance have thrown prudence to the 
winds, and neglected every suggestion and 
service of common-sense and experience. 
These, like Job, keep us in sight of fear ; 
still the time has not yet come when we 
can dispense with their useful service. We 
cannot yet make our bread as Jesus fed the 
multitude, pay our taxes by catching a fish 



34 ''SHE'' : AN ALLEGORY OE THE CHURCH. 

with a piece of money in its mouth, nor 
walk on the water instead of employing a 
boat. 

After Leo and Holly reached the Fire of 
Life Job died in the presence of the stu- 
pendous miracle. The time is coming when 
we shall be sufficiently spiritual to be master 
over all material conditions. Until it does 
come let us not delay the redemption of 
" She " by neglecting to be practical. Do 
not promise to restore an arm that has been 
cut off. You can safely say the time will 
soon be here when such things will be done, 
even as Jesus restored the ear cut off by 
Peter and raised the dead — " Be ye wise as 
serpents and harmless as doves." 

Children of the Sun and of the Lion- 
heart, much depends on our prudence as 
well as our courage. We know that our 
Redeemer liveth. We know that the word 
of God is true and shall not return unto 
Him void. We know that we shall solve 



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35 



at last the great Mystery of Life and con- 
quer our last enemy — Death. We know 
that the Truth shall make us free. Hut the 
way that leadeth into life is straight and 
narrow — yea, rough and difficult, as sym- 
bolized in the experiences of Leo and Holly 
on board the ship off the African coast, 
surrounded with traitors, dashed by a sudden 
storm into the howling waves of the sea, 
saved by their own life-boat — but how 
thrilling the danger : " Above the awful 
shriekings of the hurricane came a duller, 
deeper roar. Great heavens ! It was the 
voice of breakers ! At that moment the 
moon began to shine forth, out far across 
the torn bosom of the ocean shot the 
ragged arrows of her light, and there, half 
a mile ahead of them, was a white line of 
foam, then a little space of open-mouthed 
blackness, and tlien another line of white. 
It was the breakers, and their roar o^rew 
clearer and yet more clear as they sped 



^6 " S//£'' : AA^ ALLEGORY OF TILE CHURCLL. 

down upon them like a swallow. There they 
were, boiling up in snowy spouts of spray, 
smitinsf and ornashins: tooether like the 
gleaming teeth of hell." 

All who reach the Fire of Life must fjet 
through these breakers. They are the cruel 
interpretations of orthodoxy, a barbarous 
ideal of God, a physical passion and blood 
atonement, a theory of miracles inconsistent 
with Science, a false and belittling concep- 
tion of man, a phariseeism that says " I am 
holier than thou," a love tliat does not shine 
for sinner (so-called) as well as saint — but 
time would fail me to name them all. Their 
name is Legion. The whole country of 
"She" is infested with them. 

What carried our brave adventurers 
through.? Not the courage of Leo (Intuition). 
He was helpless in the bottom of the boat, 
just rescued from death by the iron grip 
of Holly (Science). What saved them ? 
The practical service of Job and the experi- 



'■'■SHE'' : AN ALLEGORY OF THE CHURCH. ^j 

ence of one of the crew of their ship, the only 
surviver. Whom does he represent ? Scep- 
ticism — sheer InfideHty. Practical service 
and the absolute defiance and darino^ of 
the sceptic can alone carry us through those 
breakers, and yet many think that the infidel 
has no place in God's world. 

Does not the sun shine and the rain fall 
for him also ? When we recos:nize our- 
selves as God's children our love will include 
him. The Church will never be redeemed 
without him. He is helping us through 
those awful breakers — those gleaming teeth 
of hell. Let your love sustain him in his 
rough work. Be grateful for his splendid 
courage of denial and preference for no God 
to one with the instincts of a savage. He, 
poor brave fellow, has but a short time to 
live. When captured by the savages over 
whom " She " ruled, they attempted to hot- 
pot him. The protection of " She " did not 
extend to him, for her message spoke only 



38 " SHE " ; AN ALLEGOR Y OF THE CHURCH. 

of white men and he was black. While 
trying to protect him from this awful fate 
he was shot dead by Holly. So Science 
will yet destroy, in seeking Truth, the very 
life of Infidelity. It has almost done this 
already. There are but few survivors of 
his school of thought. Every one with 
the slightest penetration sees that Science is 
trembling on the verge of discoveries, in its 
awful struggle with ignorance and super- 
stition, that will utterly slay Infidelity and 
Materialism. 

After the breakers are past, our voyagers 
meet with a pleasant experience. They 
enter the mouth of a quiet river — " Only 
heaving gently like some troubled woman's 
breast, giving them leisure to reflect upon 
all they had gone through and all they 
had escaped. The moon went slowly 
down in chastened loveliness. She de- 
parted like some sweet bride into her 
chamber, and long, veil-like shadows crept 



"SI/-£'\- AN ALLEGORY OF THE CHURCH. 39 

up the sky through which the stars peeped 
shyly out. Soon, however, they too began 
to pale before a splendor in the east, and 
then the quivering footsteps of tne dawn 
came rushing across the new born blue and 
shook the planets from their places. Quieter 
and yet more quiet grew the sea, quiet as 
the soft mist that brooded on her bosom 
and covered up her troubling as the illusive 
wreaths of sleep brood upon a pain-racked 
mind, causing it to forget its sorrow. From 
the east to the west sped the angels of the 
dawn — from sea to sea — from mountain top 
to mountain top — scattering light with both 
their hands. On they sped out of the dark- 
ness, perfect, glorious, like spirits of the just 
breaking from the tomb — on over the quiet 
sea — over the low coastline and the swamps 
beyond and the mountains beyond them ; 
over those who slept in peace and those 
who woke in sorrow ; over the evil and the 
good ; over the living and the dead ; over 



40 SHE" : A IV ALLEGORY OF THE CHURCH. 

the wide world and all that breathes or has 
breathed thereon. It was a wonderfully 
beautiful sight and yet sad, perhaps from the 
very excess of its beauty." 

The arising sun, the setting sun, even so 
shall this rest and refreshing this bitter- 
sweet — this sad joy — be ours. Once pass 
the breakers of false belief, and peace that 
passeth understanding shall give you rest. 

" As one whom his mother comforteth, so 
will I comfort you," is the promise. 

You are about to land on the continent 
of " She " to penetrate to the mystery of 
truth. This country seems at first lighted 
by the moon only — the reflected rays from 
a sun of faith that has set. Even this goes 
down and the stars, the dim lights of other 
faiths, like Mohammedanism and Zoroas- 
trianism, and Buddhism, fade away. Why ? 
Because a new sun is rising. Already the 
avant couriers — the first rays of clearer 



" SHE " ; AN ALLEGOR V OE THE CHURCH. 4 1 

truth, are chasing away the night, and a long 
bar of light flushes the east. 

" For, look, the morn, in russet mantle clad. 
Walks o'er the dew of you high eastward hill." 

Leo revives. Leo lives. Hope is new- 
born — Intuition is saved. Once again the 
soul speaks to man and proclaims its one- 
ness with God. Emerson said : 

" If but one hero knew it, 

The world would blush in flame; 
The sage till he hit the secret 

Would hang his head in shame." 

But at last a hero knows it. A sage has 
hit the secret. The light is here and shame 
no longer sits on the brow of highest truth. 
Reader, do you not feel the breath of this 
new morn } Awake — awake thou that sleep- 
est. It is time to live and work. A long 
journey — a great task — many dangers — and 
a mighty rescue are before us. 

Our travellers now penetrate the interior. 
Their path is one of utmost danger and dis- 



42 ''SJ/E'': AM ALLEGORY OF THE CHURCH. 

comfort. Think not, therefore, because a 
new Hfe of ecstacy has thrilled you with 
burning enthusiasm that your work is done, 
your mission achieved. Ah, no — it has only 
just begun. How many have made this 
mistake, and so, when the night has come 
again, their courage failed them and they 
fell by the way. Press on, press on, ye 
children of rescue, " She " waits your com- 
ing. And you, O, brothers and sisters in 
the world of sense — lost in the night, living 
in tombs — wait, wait a little longer, for we 
are on the road and nothing shall stay us. 

Our travellers' way lay along a river bor- 
dered with swamps, inhabited by wild beasts 
of prey. At day they are scorched by a 
burning sun; at night tortured with myriads 
of insects. Think you, my heroic comrades, 
we can escape the scorching fires of un- 
friendly criticism — the stinging tongues of 
slander — the attacks of the wild beasts of 
passion and sensuality .? Like Leo, we are 



^^SHE'' : AN ALLEGORY OF THE CHURCH. 43 

ready and willing to die for Truth. We 
have said we are dead to flesh and alive to 
spirit. Can we yet say " It is finished ? " 
Take heed. — This is to him who think- 
eth he standeth. Watch and pray, lest ye 
enter into temptation. " Many are called 
but few are chosen." Remember the in- 
scription on the gates of Busyrane — " Be 
bold " ;and on the second gate — " Be bold, 
be bold, and evermore be bold " ; but on the 
third gate — " Be not too bold." The no- 
blest courage must be armored with discre- 
tion. 

Our travellers are now captured by the 
savages over whom " She " rules. They 
would have been slain but for the command 
of " She," who has foreseen their coming 
and charged Bellali, the Father of the Tribe, 
to protect their lives. 

Bellali represents the Priesthood. The 
more ignorant and superstitious would, long 
ago, have crushed out Science and Intui- 



44 ''SHE" : AN ALLEGORY OF THE CHURCH. 

tion, but for the fact that many of the clergy 
have felt an impression that the Church had 
need of them. 

Our travellers are now taken into one of 
the tombs, in which these people live. They 
would instantly have been hot-potted but for 
the command of " She," as thousands, with 
like courage and devotion to truth, have been. 
At last we may seek truth and not be phys- 
ically tortured, though a good many think 
that this is only an experience that yet 
awaits us in another life. 

While waiting^ to learn the further will 
of '■ She," Leo's brave and handsome form 
wins for him the love of the beautiful sav- 
age maiden Ustane, who, according to the 
custom of the country, selects him for her 
husband with a kiss. Ustane represents a 
movement closely allied to the Church, and 
yet strangely differing from it ; I mean 
modern Spiritualism. At present Spiritual- 
ism and Intuition are closely allied. We 



''SHE'' : AN ALLEGORY OF THE CHURCH 45 

shall find that we are to be greatly in- 
debted to this movement. Its character and 
destiny are most accurately symbolized 
by Ustane. Ustane was physically beauti- 
ful, possessed great devotion to Leo, de- 
fended his life at the risk of her own, gifted 
with prophecy and yet not understanding 
the meaning of her visions, sensible of the 
brevity of her life in daring to love Leo and 
yet defying death for love. When Leo 
was neglected by " She," Ustane watched 
faithfully by his side. When driven forth 
by the command of She who must be obeyed, 
she preferred to return and die in the sight 
of her Leo, than to remain absent from his 
side. At first Holly saves her life by re- 
minding " She " that but for her devotion 
Leo would have been slain ; but when Us- 
tane disobeys and returns to contest the 
place by Leo's side with " She," her fate is 
sealed, and the mighty power of the silent 
will of " She " strikes her dead at Leo's feet, 



46 " SHE'' : AN ALLEGORY OF THE CHURCH. 

Even in this awful moment, when Leo, 
maddened with the desire for vengeance, 
rushes to take the Hfe of Ustane's murderess, 
her mighty power hurls him back without 
effort, and in a few minutes he is at her 
feet, vowing eternal love, while " She " ex- 
claims : 

" I have waited and my reward is with 
me ; I have overcome Death and Death 
brought back to me him that was dead, 
therefore do I rejoice ; for fair is the future, 
green are the paths that we shall tread 
across the everlasting meadows. The hour 
is at hand. Night hath fled away into the 
valleys ; the dawn kisseth the mountain 
tops, soft shall we lie, my love, and easy 
shall we go. Crowned shall we be with the 
diadem of kings. Worshipping and won- 
der struck, all peoples of the world, blinded, 
shall fall before our beauty and our might. 
From time unto time shall our greatness 
thunder on, rolling like a chariot through 



SHE'' : AN ALLEGORY OF THE CHUKCIL. 47 

the dust of endless days, laughing shall we 
speed in our victory and pomp, laughing 
like the daylight as he leaps along the hills 
— onward, still triumphant to a triumph 
ever new ; onward, in our power to a power 
unattained ! Onward, never weary, clad 
with splendor for a robe. Till accomplished 
be our fate, and the night is rushing down." 
All this is wonderful — marvellous — in 
the aptness of its symbolism and prescience. 
Before the Church thought of recognizing 
Intuition, Spiritualism fell in love with its 
beauty, only " She " put it to a phenomenal 
instead of a spiritual use. This wild and 
savage creature, lawless and unconventional, 
free and bold in her love, has yet defended 
with her life the right to a present inspira- 
tion — thrusting her own body between In- 
tuition and the threatening spears of dog- 
matic ecclesiastical condemnation. For her 
right to live, many of the representatives of 
science have pleaded — not seeing that 



48 ''SHE'' : AN ALLEGORY OF THE CHURCH. 

either Spiritualism or the Church must 
die, and that short and feeble must be the 
struggle of the former for supremacy. Al- 
ready Spiritualism feels in anticipation the 
night rushing down on her, but she will re- 
sist and defy the Church for a time. Then 
Inspiration will forsake her. Already those 
of her lovers in whom Inspiration has 
ripened into Intuition are at the feet of 
"She," going back into the ministry or 
taking up with Theosophy, Rosicrucianism, 
Hermetic Philosophy, or the new ministry 
of Christian Science. We mourn the fate 
of Ustane, and yet we see that only can she 
ever truly live by dying. The rainbow of 
hope encircles her dying moments as she 
exclaims, " Ay, I die — I die and go into the 
darkness, nor know I whither I go ! But 
this I know: There is a light shining in 
my breast, and by that light, as by a lamp 
I see the truth and the future. When first 
I knew my Lord I knew also that death 



''SHE'' : AN ALLEGORY OF THE CHURCH. 49 

would be the bridal gift he gave me — it 
rushed upon me of a sudden — but I turned 
not back, being ready to pay tlie price ; and 
behold, death is here ! And now — even as 
I knew that — so do I, standing on the steps 
of doom, know that thou shalt not reap the 
profits of thy crime. Mine he is, and 
though thy beauty shine like a sun among 
the stars, mine shall he remain. For thee 
— never here in this life shall he look thee 
in the eyes and call thee spouse. Thou 
too art doomed ! " — Ustane saw no further; 
because the power of " She " slew her. 

As Leo was the reincarnation of Kalli- 
krates so was Ustane the expression of 
Amenartas. Before, Kallikrates lost his 
life because he had set the love of his heart 
on the dying instead of the undying — the 
Psychic instead of the Spiritual. Now, 
Ustane dies to save Leo because our love 
must be entirely spiritual. Spiritualism 
pleases but does not elevate. It is a garden 



50 



''SHE": AN- ALLEGORY OF THE CHURCH. 



of rare and beautiful flowers, some of which 
are deadly poison, and yields no fruit unto 
Righteousness. Theosophy and other kin- 
dred movements are only the passing thrills 
of vengeance in Leo's breast. He longed 
to sweep " She " from the face of the earth. 
Already they are retiring before the mighty 
power of " She." But " She " also must 
lose her outward form, for that too is of the 
earth earthy, and though two thousand 
years it has defied the encroachments of 
time, it too is doomed. Before " She " knew 
that her love had returned — was actually in 
her abode— she was entirely taken up with 
Holly, though Leo was struggling in the 
very jaws of death. Even so is it with the 
Church. She gives hospitality to Science, 
shows him much courtesy, while Intuition 
is almost dying, left as he is solely to 
Spiritualism and practical Service, as Leo 
was left to Ustane and Job. Already the 
Church is trying to shape her Theology to 



''SHE'' : AN ALLEGORY OF THE CHURCH. 51 

the demands of Science. The doctrine of 
our Baboon origin is preached in many a 
pulpit and tolerated in many of her colleges. 
Science has for a little time appropriated 
the place of Intuition. Holly, in one of his 
interviews with " She," had on his hand the 
ring belonging to Leo containing the scarab 
on which was the motto, " The Royal Son 
of the Sun." In the delirium of fever Leo 
had dropped it and Holly picked it up and 
thoughtlessly put it on. Science has re- 
ceived such a warm welcome from "She" 
that he actually thinks he is born of the 
sun and will be her lover, knowing not that 
" She " cannot for a moment really entertain 
his love. But "She " is something of a 
coquette. So is the Church, and hence she 
feigns love to Science, knowing in her heart 
of hearts she yet waits her true lord. As 
'' She " catches sight of the scarab a new 
emotion shoots through all her being. 
" Man," she half-whispered, half-hissed, 



52 ''SHE'' : AN ALLEGORY OF THE CHURCH. 

throwing back her head like a snake about 
to strike, — " Man, where didst thou get that 
scarab on thy hand ! Speak, or by the 
spirit of life, I will blast thee where thou 
standest" Poor Holly was so frightened 
that he fell on the ground before her — bab- 
bling out that he picked it up — forgetting 
in his terror that it belonged to Leo. So, 
let the Church get the first sign from her 
risen Lord, and through all her form will 
course a stream of life and power before 
which Science will be dumb with amaze- 
ment. And yet, think how near we are to 
this day when her Lord is here — only " She " 
does not know it. The Christ (Truth) is 
born again. The Soul has spoken. The 
sick are healed. The blind receive their 
sight. Devils are cast out. Soon the dead 
will be raised. The age of miracles is again 
at the very doors of the Church. Beauti- 
ful, God-like Intuition has been smitten by 
her own ignorant subjects, and poisoned 



" SHE"" : AN ALLEGORY OF THE CHURCH. 53 

with the malaria arising from the swamps 
of their hypocrisy and superstition, and all 
this time " She" is coquetting with Science. 
The lion-hearted, who have dared all for 
Truth, — even to accepting the love of 
Ustane — are almost perishing from neglect. 
Oh ! Church, worship no longer at the tomb 
of a dead Lord when a living one needs 
your help ! Stop exhibiting your corpses, 
and recounting the strange marvels of the 
dead past to the scrutiny of Science. 

At last, pity takes "She " to the bedside 
of poor Leo and she beholds her love in the 
very throes of death. For a little time it is 
uncertain whether the remedy she admin- 
isters is not too late. During that awful 
moment of suspense she suffers indescrib- 
able agony. At last the scale turns in 
favor of life. For two thousand years had 
" She " lived without companionship, with- 
out comfort, without death, led on down her 
dreary road by the marsh lights of hope 



54 ''SHE " .- AN ALLEGORY OF THE CHURCH. 

which, though they flickered here and there, 
and now glowed strong and now were not, 
yet the spirit of prophecy assured her that 
her deliverer would come. 

" Then, think of it," " She " says, " Oh 
Holly — for never shalt thou hear such 
another tale or see such another scene — 
nay, not even if I give thee ten thousand 
years of life, and thou shalt have it in pay- 
ment if thou wilt. Think, at last my de- 
liver came — he for whom I had watched and 
waited through the generations — at the ap- 
pointed time he came to seek me as I knew 
that he must come, for my wisdom could 
not err, though I knew not when or how — 
yet see how ignorant I was ! See how small 
my knowledge and faint my strength ! For 
hours he lay sick unto death and I felt it 
not — I who had waited for him two thousand 
years — I knew it not." 

Even so is it with the Church to-day. In 
spite of her wondrous antiquity, so rich and 



^^SHE"" : AN' ALLEGORY OF THE CLIURCIL, 55 

yet so poor, so wise and yet so ignorant, so 
mighty and yet so weak, her DeHverer is 
here. He for whose return she has watched 
for two thousand years — renewing again and 
again the flickering light of Hope — and lo, 
now Knowledge is born and she is ignorant. 
Now Love is here to take her as his Bride 
and she still hates. Courage is here and 
she still fears. Faith is here and she still 
doubts. The grave has given up its dead 
and she still sits weeping therein. 

Who can describe the joy of " She " when 
Leo was fully recovered ? It was indeed 
her redemption. Nothing can rescue the 
Church from its night of weary watching but 
the light of Intuition companioned by 
Spiritualized Science. 

When Leo gave to " She " love for love 
and grace for grace, she exclaimed : " I 
swear, even in this first most holy hour of 
completed womanhood, that I will abandon 
evil and cherish good. I swear that I will 



56 " SHE'' : AN ALLEGORY OF THE CHURCH. 

be ever guided by thy voice in the straight- 
est path of duty. I swear that I will eschew 
Ambition and through all my length of 
endless days set Wisdom over me as a 
guiding star to lead me unto Truth and a 
knowledge of the Right. I swear also that 
I will honor and will cherish thee, Kalli- 
krates, who hast been swept by the wave of 
time back into my arms. Ay, till the very 
end, come it soon or late, I swear — nay, I 
will swear no more, for what are words? 
Yet shalt thou learn that Ayesha hath no 
false tongue." 

In this sublime spirit — in this complete 
consecration, sacrifice and service, thrilling 
with the baptism of this all radiant and per- 
fect love, " She " enters the bath of fire, and 
lo, instead of preserving, it destroys. But 
Holly and Leo live. They imbibe enough 
of the fire to experience its exhilarating 
potency. " She " is enshrined in the heart 
of Leo, and also of Holly, though the mantle 



''SHE'' : AN ALLEGORY OF THE CHURCH. 57 

of " She " falls through the gloom of the 
night upon Leo. 

No words are yet born that can fully de- 
scribe the meaning of all this. The bath 
of fire is the cleansing power of Spirit — 
the recognition that we are not flesh and 
blood but spirit, is to bathe therein. The 
death of " She " and the salvation of Leo 
means that living Intuition — the open vision 
of Truth with the last veil torn away — is to 
take the place of the dead dogmas — the 
corpses of the past — with which the Church, 
like " She " has so long illumined the night 
of her darkness. The outward form of 
" She " perished, but her spirit was new 
born — for the letter killeth but the Spirit 
giveth life. 

As Leo and Holly both live, so shall 
Science and Intuition work together as one. 
Religion is to become scientific and Science 
religious. The Church shall be redeemed. 
The Church shall serve the Truth with all 



58 ''S//£'\- AJSr ALLEGORY OF THE CHURCH. 

her wealth and power. The old forms 
shrivel up in the cleansing fires of Truth 
and Love — but new and more beautiful ones 
will soon be born. It is faith makes us (as 
Emerson says) — not we it. It is the soul 
saves us — not we the soul. We have but 
to love and serve — to conquer fear — to go 
forth like Holly and Leo to solve our mys- 
tery and find our inheritance, and lo, what- 
ever our dangers, we shall be delivered 
from them all. " He shall give His angels 
charo^e concerninor thee." " Fear not little 
flock, for it is your Father's good pleasure to 
give you the kingdom." " Knock and it 
shall be opened — seek and ye shall find." 

So went I forth and found. Smitten by 
the storm of doubt I sank into the black 
depths of infidelity. I was saved as by a 
miracle — the strong hand of science and the 
courage and daring that preferred no God 
to a lie, and the unselfishness of helpfulness 
to my great Human Brotherhood rather 



''SHE'" : AN ALLEGORY OF THE CHURCH. 59 

than believe that one could be lost. I saw 
the bright streamers of a new day chase 
away the shadows of the night, and the 
calm of toleration stilling the troubled 
waters of dogmatic fury. Though the ar- 
rows of slander robbed me of rest, the wild 
beasts of passion raved, and the scorching 
sun of criticism fevered my blood, yet I 
drew nearer, day by day to my beloved. In 
hours of danger " She" herself sent me succor. 
I was rescued from the fires of cruelty by 
the love of one I met by the way. Sweet 
were the dreams and joyous the hours she 
gave me. I forgot danger in the love of 
Ustane. Her devotion plucked me from 
the yawning gulf of death. It shielded me 
from the sharp spear of savage bigotry. But 
in the struggle for life before this deliver- 
ance I had received many a wound, and 
with the loss of blood I was faint. The 
malaria rising from the swamps of hypoc- 
risy through which I passed made the blood 



6o " SHE " ; AN ALLEGOR V OF THE CHURCH. 

boil in my veins and frenzied my brain with 
delirium. I lay in the very house of my be- 
loved, struggling with death, neglected and 
forgotten. " She" at last saw me, and lo, I 
was the one she had waited for through the 
ages. How strong her hand to the rescue. 
How mighty her joy. How swift the ac- 
tion of her restorative. At first she seemed 
to me only as a ghost of the past. I turned 
to my Ustane, and " She" struck her a 
corpse at my feet. I raised my hand to be 
avenged and behold ! the might of her silent 
thought unnerved me. In the very pres- 
ence of death, she unveiled her beauty, and 
I fell at her feet and knew that I had found 
my Queen, and my Beloved. The dead im- 
age of me, worshipped so long, was con- 
sumed. I drew from the face of Truth the 
last thin veil, and lo, she was mine. But 
the fire of this great love consumed her 
form, and, for a little while, she lived only 
in Heaven and the shrine of my heart. But 



''SHE'' : AN ALLEGORY OF THE CHURCH 6 1 

I know she will come back to me, more 
glorious than before. The light of prophecy 
illumines the future. No more will " She,'' 
dwell in tombs. No more will " She," wor- 
ship the dead. No more will " She," mingle 
curses with her blessings, nor evil with her 
good. The tree of knowledge, of good and 
evil is cut down and the tree of life that all 
is good ^\M\\.(tA in its place. 

Wherever man lives and toils, thinks and 
loves there dwells " She." From her Palace 
Beautiful lead all the highways of service. 
Beneath her smile hate flees from the world. 
War is a lost art. Poverty is unknown. 
The wild beasts have become gentle as 
lambs. The swamps are changed into smil- 
ing valleys. The mountains have bowed 
their heads and come down while from foot 
to summit rise the terraces of fruitfulness. 
The elements are at peace. Spring and 
Summer are over all the earth ; Sickness has 
given all her place to Health ; Insanity to 



62 " SHE " ; AN ALLEGOR Y OF THE CHURCH. 

Sanity ; Death to Life, for behold, when my 
Beloved returns in her beauty and strength, 
there is to be a new heaven and a new 
earth, and all things are to be made new. 



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EPILOGUE. 

The production of the foregoing inter- 
pretation of " She," is something of a psy- 
chological enigma to the writer. This re- 
markable book was first read to while away 
the hours on a long ocean voyage. Apart 
and distinct from other books read for the 
same purpose it seemed at one with the 
music and mystery of the ocean, and to call 
forth thoughts akin to those the everlasting 
stars whisper to us when we invoke their 
confidence. 

To tell the truth I fell in love with " She," 
I dreamed of her by night and thought of 
her by day. I felt as we have sometimes 
felt when we suddenly meet a stranger, 
whom, in an instant, we feel we have 



64 ''SHE " .- AN ALLEGORY OF THE CHURCH. 

always known, and go searching through the 
corridors of the mind trying to remember 
where and how we had met before. 

I had always known " She," Where ? 
When? How? Did "She" really Hve, 
and was I " Leo ? " 

I was quite sure that all this had a spiritual 
meaning. In moments of inspiration I 
caught glimpses of the truth and resolved to 
unravel the mystery. The time, however, 
was not yet ripe. I had already passed 
* through many of the experiences portrayed 
in this interpretation, still I was no more 
prepared to solve the mystery then than 
Leo and Holly would have been, had they 
gone no farther than the first cave — in 
which Leo won the love of Ustane. I, also, 
had my Ustane. " She " showed me things 
of rarest beauty and I seemed to be in a 
land of enchantment. All sense was more 
highly gratified than in the world from 
which I came. I saw with other eyes, heard 



" SHE'' : AN ALLEGORY OF THE CHURCH. 65 

with other ears, was fed from an invisible 
source, enjoyed exquisite odors sweeter 
than any perfume of earth, and felt the 
touch and thrilling presence of unseen 
forms. In the lans^uaore of Browninsr's 
" Paracelsus," I might say : 

If some mortal born too soon 

Were laid away in some great trance, 

The ages coming and going all the while till dawned 

His true time's advent and could then record 

The words they spoke — who kept watch by his bed 

Then I might tell more of the breath so light 

Upon my eyelids, and the fingers warm 

Among my hair. 

Ah, the first joy of it ! To feel that death 
has not robbed you of your beloved ; to know 
that life is Lord of death ! You tread upon 
enchanted ground. You sink into dreams of 
bliss on beds of flowers, and wake with a kiss 
upon your lips from an angel presence. You 
rise to pursue it that you may catch and 
hold it, and like a will-o'-the-wisp it eludes 



66 " SHE " ; AN ALLEGORY OF THE CHURCH. 

your grasp, until, blinded and bewildered, you 
fall into a morass, or find yourself plunged 
into some deadly spiritual conflict, faintly 
portrayed in the terrible struggle for exist- 
ence which Holly and Leo underwent in 
this stage of their journey. The world of 
Psychic phenomena is indeed an enchanted 
realm, but woe to him who mistakes it for 
Paradise. Rest there, but sleep not. Refresh 
yourself, and in that strength, seek the true 
spiritual realm of which it is only a fair 
promise and prophecy. 

Some of my readers will doubtless be in- 
clined at first to rebel at the place assigned 
to Spiritualism in this wonderful allegory. 
But, oh, my brothers and sisters, you who 
have with me basked in the light of this fairy 
world and groped amid its shadows, the very 
profundity of your disappointment is the 
divine love and truth calling you to seek 
the true spiritual realm in which there is no 
night ; for 



^'SHE" : AX ALLEGORY OE TILE CHURCLL 67 

" Night's candles are burnt out, and jocund day, 
Stands tip-toe on tlie misty mountain tops." 

How bewildering, how perplexing, the 
frauds and cheats ; how contradictory the 
most inspired utterances of most gifted 
mediumistic inspiration ; how vague, how 
wordy, often insipid and void of all conti- 
nuity. • • Is this the world's full-orbed 
hope? No — No. It is but some meteor 
that the true sun exhales to be to our night 
a torchbearer until the morning of a perfect 
day dawns clear and bright. Tis time. 
New hopes should animate the world, new light 
Should dawn from new revealings to a race 
Weighed down so long, forgotten so long ; so shall 
The heaven reserved for us at last receive 
Creatures whom no unwonted splendors blind. 
But ardent to confront the unclouded blaze 
Whose beams not seldom blessed their pilgrimage. 
Not seldom glorified their life below. 

To kindle in other minds this hope — to 
point the way to the true fire o^" life is the 
one wish of the writer. The way is straight 



6S ''SHE " .- AN ALLEGORY OF THE CHURCH. 

and narrow — full of difficulty, and yet if we 
are but brave of heart conquering fear, vic- 
tory is sure. Who would not dare all for 
such a prize ? Remember " faint heart never 
won fair lady." It was only after I had 
found my beloved that I knew the meaning 
of " She." 

While yet the riddle was unsolved, I met 
one who had found the solution in his own 
life, and, strange to say, also attempted an 
interpretation of " She," finding the corre- 
spondence between her and the church. 
This he afterwards published in one of the 
New York magazines. It is quite distinct, 
with a value unique and instructive, but sep- 
arate from the following, save in the one 
parallelism between " She "and the church. 

I find it impossible to say whether or not 
I am indebted to that writer for this sugges- 
tion, as at the time, I knew not how to use 
it. In another way he gave me the key 
that opened the one closed chamber in my 



''SHE"'' : AN ALLEGORY OF TLIE CHURCH. 69 

heart which was shutting out the perfect 
Hght of truth — by bringing me a message 
from the one who gave me the clue that un- 
ravels all mystery. The joy of this discov- 
ery is not to be told in words. The exter- 
nal mind that sticks to facts and the common 
place is pushed aside and made to act sim- 
ply as amanuensis to the soul. That which 
I have told and would yet reveal can only 
be hinted at, sketched in rudest outline in 
symbol allegory as it rushes forth in rejoic- 
ing song and symbol. 

Faith is almost dead in the world and 
hope's pinions droop ; yet the night fleeth 
and the morninsf cometh. Soon we can 



sms: 



" The year's at the spring, 
And day's at the morn, 
Morning's at seven, 
The hill sides dew-pearled, 
The lark's on the wing, 
The snail's on the thorn, 
God's in his heaven — 
All's right with the world.'' 



yo " SHE'' : AN ALLEGORY OE THE CHURCH. 

Through sunshine and shadow, calm and 
storm, the great globe with its living freight 
rushes onward to perfection. Through all 
my long and eager search for truth and 
right, I was mounting higher, though as I 
climbed round and round the Mount of En- 
deavor I was sometimes in the shadow and 
at others in the shine. Looking back one 
day over this circuitous route I blushed 
with shame at the thouQ^ht of recommend- 
ing to others this long and weary way. A 
great conviction swept over me that I had 
not yet solved the full mystery of my inher- 
itance as " The Royal Son of the Sun." As 
I felt more keenly the pain and misery, the 
unrest and war of the world, realizing that 
" I was my brother's keeper," that never 
could I enter into final and complete rest 
without finding deliverance for all, my 
every thought and breath became a prayer 
for light on this problem. In response the 



" SHE " ; AN- ALLEGOR Y OF THE CHURCH. 7 1 

Soul sent me the one to whom I have 
referred and who said : 

" You have but one thing more to do to 
find the deliverance you desire — you are 
standing at the very threshold of the temple 
Truth. Only one veil hangs between you 
and your everlasting bride and the sanctu- 
ary in which there is rest for all, and that 
veil none but your own hand can remove, 
nor rend in twain." 

"What is that? " I cried. 

" The flesh," she replied. 

" I have Ions: denied the flesh," I answer- 
ed, " and acknowledge it only as the servant 
of the soul." " I know," she answered, 
" but the flesh profiteth notJiing — you are de- 
pending on many external methods both in 
the physical and psychic realm instead of 
on Spirit alone. Both are idolatry." 

As the word of truth lighted up my life, 
I discovered what great possessions I had 
here, and so for a time was very sorrowful. 



72 ''SHE'' : AN ALLEGORY OF THE CHURCH. 

After a severe struggle I cried with every 
fibre of my being": " let me have the truth 
though I die ! I icnow that I am immortal 
and can live and work in other spheres." 
The veil parted, and I stood once more face 
to face with Jesus of Nazareth, and found 
myself in a Christian temple. For a moment, 
in my bewilderment, I thought of flight 
Intellectual pride said, " What ! you who 
have outgrown Christianity into all religions 
to become again a Christian •' " As this 
thought flashed upon me the features of 
Jesus were suddenly changed into those of 
Buddha and he replied, " I also have many 
forms. There is but one way — I am the 
way, the truth and the life. As Buddha, I 
taught the salvation that comes of denial 
of sense; as the Christ, the saving power of 
faith or affirmation of Spirit." Then I was 
left alone in the temple, and through all my 
consciousness streamed the cleansing fires 
of infinite Truth and Love. I found myself 



'•SHE" : AN- ALLEGORY OF THE CLIURCIL 73 

saying, " It is finished. I am dead to the 
physical self. The flesh profiteth nothing 
— Spirit is all. I have been crucified, dead, 
and buried, and still I live ; I also am ' the 
way, the truth, and the life.' The same 
mind that was in the Buddha and in the 
Christ is also in me." 

Each man his prison makes. We forge 
our own chains. All that men and women 
suffer is of their own making. The same 
power that makes can unmake. There is 
deliverance for all. The truth shall make 
us free. The kingdom of heaven is within 
— it comes not by observation. This is the 
temple that is built silently, without sound. 
This is the lost word — the creative power of 
thought — which the Masonic and other 
secret societies have lost and are trying to 
find amid the rubbish of external symbols. 
This is the elixir of life — the cup of the 
Sangraal. 

Vision followed vision. I was translated 



74 " SHE'' : AN AL TEGOR Y OF THE CHURCH. 

to a vast system of subterranean dungeons. 
In my hand was a key that unlocked them 
all — the denial of flesh and the afifirmation 
of Spirit. I was lost in the old labyrinths of 
the Egyptians. This truth fell like a golden 
thread from the heavens, held by the hand 
of the Christ, following which I escaped 
from all its bewildering mazes. I was dying 
of thirst. In my hands was placed the cup, 
drinking of which I knew I could never 
thirst again. I was in the bowers of Para- 
dise, and lo, one more beautiful than " She " 
—the hope of all my hopes, the dream of all 
my dreams — stood by my side and then was 
not — only I felt her beauty and life absorbed 
into mine, as two drops of dew meet and 
mingle into one. I stood in the heart of a 
burning sun of Truth, and lo, / knew the 
meanmg of " Shey Like Holly and Leo I 
became sensible of a wild and splendid 
exhilaration, of a glorious sense of such a 
fierce intensity of Life that the most buoy- 



'■'■ SHE"" : AN ALLEGORY OF THE CHURCH. 75 

ant moments of past strength seemed tame 
and feeble in comparison. I laughed aloud 
one minute and the next wept for joy. In 
this lightness of heart and intoxication of 
brain I felt as thoucrh all the varied srenius 
of which the human intellect is capable had 
descended upon me. I could have spoken 
blank verse of Shakespearian beauty ; all 
sorts of great ideas flashed through my 
mind ; it was as though the bonds of my 
flesh had been loosened and left the spirit 
free to soar to the empyrean of its native 
power. The sensations that poured in 
upon me are indescribable. I seemed to 
live more keenly, to reach to a higher joy, 
and sip the goblet of a subtler thought than 
ever it had been my lot to do before. I was 
another and most o:lorified self, and all the 
avenues of the Possible were for a space 
laid open to the footsteps of the Real. 
The very day after this experience I went 



76 " SHE " ; AN ALLEGORY OF THE CHURCH. 

by a seeming accident to the theatre and 
the play was " She." 

Intellect cried out with Horatio : 

" O' day and night, but this is wondrous 
strange" — 

while the soul replied with Ham kt : 

"■ And therefore as a stranger give it welcome. 
There are more things in heaven and earth, Ho- 
ratio, 
Than are dreamt of in your philosophy." 

A strange thrill of some mysterious re- 
lationship to " She " took possession of my 
thoughts until it took form in a desire to- 
interpret its meaning. Resolving to make 
the attempt, I reasoned out what seemed to 
me a plausible solution, and one night sat 
down to write. The moment I did so I had 
the same intensity of feeling, and all that I 
had outlined in my mind was swept away 
like driftwood before a flood — all took dif- 
ferent and unexpected shape, and before I 



♦' SHE " ; AN ALLEGOR V OF THE CHURCH. 77 

arose, or felt the slightest sense of fatigue, 
I had written the full interpretation. 

If I am indebted at all to Dr. S it 

came forth from the unconscious and im- 
personal side of me that knows neither mine 
nor thine, and I readily, in that oneness, 
share with him whatever of merit or good or 
service there is in these pages. That they 
may help to redeem " She," the Church, and 
through the Church the world, is my most 
earnest prayer. 

When is that Redemption to come ? 
" She " herself tells, when she says : " Ah, 
if man would but see that hope is from with- 
in and not from without." 

Even so does every pulpit proclaim that 
" The kingdom is within," and yet the vast 
majority look for it from without. 

But a few have unveiled Truth. Leo has 
survived his task. Love and Truth have 
met. The bridal day has come. The joy 



7 8 ''SHE'' : AN ALLEGORY TO THE CHURCH. 

that will thrill through the world to-morrow 
will be felt but never told. 

In concluding my task I can only say 
that I have done what I could to be true to 
Truth. But all language is too poor in 
which to pay its wealth. All external things 
are but hints, types, shadows of the glory 
thereof. Truth says to each : I love them 
that love me ; and those that seek me dili- 
gently shall find me. Behold, I stand at the 
door, and knock : if any man hear my voice 
and open the door, I will come in to him, 
and will sup with him, and he with me. He 
that overcometh I will give to him to sit 
down with me in my throne, as I also over- 
came and sat down with my Father in his 
throne. He that hath an ear, let him hear 
what the Spirit saith to the churches. 

Leo Michael. 



SHE " -.AN ALLEGORY OF THE CHURCH. 



79 



APPENDIX. 

Believing — yea, knowing — that all that is 
true and permanent is supernatural — that is, 
above what in our blindness we have called 
Nature — I am quite content to expose my- 
self to the charge of superstition by relating 
what follows : 

After completing the last page of the fore- 
going and sending it to the printer, I sat 
musing at my study table, when a strong 
impression came over me to open "The 
Perfect Way," lying with several other books 
before me. Yielding to this impulse, and 
opening it at random, I found I had turned 
to page 174, and the following passage 
riveted my attention. I find therein such a 
wonderful coincidence and confirmation of 
some of the thoughts unfolded in the " Inter- 
pretation of ' She,' " that I am impelled to 



8o '•'• SHE"" : AN ALLEGORY OF THE CHURCH. 

quote it here for the benefit of the reader : 
" That the time of the rising of the Celes- 
tial Virgin and of the rehabiHtation of truth 
by the Woman-Messias of the Interpretation 
is near at hand, they who watch the " times," 
and the " heavens," may know by more than 
one token. To na«me but one : the sign 
Leo, which upon the Celestial Chart precedes 
the Ascension of the Woman, going before 
her as her herald, is the sign of the present 
Head of the Catholic Church. When 
assuming that title, he declared his office to 
be that of the " Lion of the Tribe of Judah," 
the domicile of the sun, the tribe appointed 
to produce the Christ. To the ascension 
of this constellation, preparing, as it were, 
the way of the Divine Virgin, the prophecy 
of Israel in Genesis refers : 

Judah is a strong lion ; my Son, thou art gone 
up. The sceptre shall not be taken away from 
Judah till the coming of the messenger — or Shiloh 
— the expectation of the nations, 



''SHE ' : AN' ALLEGORY OF THE CHURCH. 8 1 

" And not only does the chief Bishop of 
the Church bear this significant name of the 
" Lion," but he is also the thirteenth of that 
name, and thirteen is the number of the 
Woman and of the lunar cycle, the number 
of Isis and of the Microcosm. It is the 
number which indicates the fulnessof things 
and the consummation of the " Divine Mar- 
riage" — the At-one-ment of Man and God. 

" Moreover, the arms of Leo XIII. repre- 
sent a tree on a mount, between two triune 
lilies, and in the dexter chief point a blazing 
star, with the motto ''Lumen in Coslo!' What 
is this tree but the tree of Life ; these lilies 
but the Lilies of the new Annunciation, — of 
the Ave which is to reverse the curse of 
Eva ? What star is this, if not the star of 
the second Advent ! History repeats itself 
only because all history is already written 
in heaven." 

It is not to be supposed from the above 
that the Pope Leo is to be the redeemer of 



82 '-S/ZE'': AlSr ALLEGORY OF THE CILURCH. 

'' She." The letter killeth but the Spirit 
giveth Hfe. He, however, is a sign that the 
new heaven and new earth in which all 
things are to be made new is near at hand. 

The deeper meaning of " She," and Leo 
— the Divine Marriage — tlie fruit of the 
tree of life that shall heal the world's sick- 
ness — the second coming of Christ to the 
world — through a life of virgin purity whose 
symbol is the lily — and whose star is now 
leading the only true wisdom on the earth 
— will follow this Intrepretation when the 
time is ripe. 

Written in truth and love for all my 
Brothers and Sisters lost in the night and 
crying for the light. 



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Claribel's Love Story. l;y B.M. Clav.25 

Forty Liars. By Bill Nye 25 

Dawn. By H. R'der Haggard.. ..25 
Shadow of a Sin and Wedded and 

Parted. By Bertha M. Clay 25 

Wee Wifie. By Rosa N. Carey . . .25 

The Dead Secret. By Collins 25 

Count cif Monte Cristo. By Alexan- 
dre Dumas. Complete in 1 \ol 50 

The Wandering Jew. By Eugene 

Sue. Complete in 1 v<il 50 

The Mysteries of I'aris. By Eugene 

Sue. Complete in 1 volume 50 

Middlemarch. By George Eliot... 50 

Scottish Chiefs. By Jane Porter 50 

Under Two Flags. By Ouida 50 

David Coiiperfield. By Dickens... .50 
Monsieur Lecnq. By E. Gaboriau..50 
Springhaven. By R. D. P,lackmore..25 
oijeeches of Henry Ward Biecher. 

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Tour of the World in SO Days. By 

Jules Verne 25 

20.000 Leagues Under the Sea. By 

Jules Verne 25 

Tlie Golden Hope. By W. Clarke 

Russell 25 

Oliver Twi.st. By Charles Dickens. .25 
Lovell's Whim. By Shirley Smith. .25 
Allan Quatermain. H. R. Haggard. x5 
The Great Hesper. By F. Barrett. .25 
As in a Looking Glas.s. F.C. Philips.S^5 
This Man's Wife. G. Manviile Fenii.5;5 
Sabina Zembra. By Wni. Black. . . 25 
The Hag of Diamonds. G. M. Frnii.£5 
£10,000. By T. E. Willson.. ..25 

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Majendie 25 

Beforehand. By T. L. Meade 25 

The Dean and his Daughter. By the 

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Scheherazade. By Florence Warden. .25 
The Duchess. By The Duchess , . . 25 



84 Peck's Irish Friend, Phelan Geogp- 

han. By Geo. W. Peck ^>5 

85 Her Desperate Victory. By M. L. 

Rayne 25 

86 Strange Adventures of Lucy Smith. 

By F. C. Philips 25 

87 Je-sie. By author of " Addie's Hus- 

band" 25 

88 M mories of Men who Saved the 

Union. By Donn Piatt 25 

89 Dick's Wandering. By Julian Stuigis.25 

90 Confessions of a Society Man 25 

91 Lady Grace. 15y Mrs. Henry Wood, 

author of " East Lynne " 25 

92 The Frozen Pirate. By W. Clark 

Russell 25 

93 Jack and Three Jills. By F. C. 

Philips 25 

91 A Tale of Three Lions. By H. R. 
Haggard 25 

95 From the Other Side. By F. B. 

Notley, author of " Olive Varcoe."25 

96 S.iaaie and Sabre. By Hawley 

Sni.rt 25 

97 Trea^iure Island. By Robert Louis 

Stevenson 25 

98 A Huuse of Tears. By E. Downey . .25 

99 Mona's Choice. By Mrs. Alex- 

ander 25 

lUO Bill Nye's Chestnut. By Bill Nye. .50 
lUl Not Like Other Girls. By Rosa 

Nouchette Carey 25 

102 St jry of Antony Grace. By G. Man- 

ville Fenn 25 

103 A Modern Magician. By J. F. 

Malloy 25 

104 M irvel. Bv The Duchess 25 

105 One Traveller Returns. By David 

Christie Murray 25 

106 Only the Governess. By Rosa Nou- 

chetto Carey 25 

107 The Octoroon. By Mrs. M. E. Brad- 

don 25 

108 A Life Interest. By Mrs. Alexander.25 

109 A True Magdalen. By Bertha M. 

Clay 25 

110 A False Start. By Hawley Smart. .25 

111 A Terrible Temptation. By Charles 

Reads 25 

112 Breezie Langton. By Hawley 

Smart 25 

113 The Deem-ter. By Hall Caine 25 

114 The Passenger from Scotland Yard. 

By H. F. Wood 25 

115 Mv Husband and I. By Count Leon 

Tolstoi 25 

116 With Cupid's Eyes. By Florence 

Marryat 25 

117 Stormy Waters. By Robert Buchan- 

an .!.. . 25 

118 Othmar. By Ouida 25 

119 King or Knave. By R. S. Fran- 

cillon 25 

120 Pasc irel. By Ouida 25 

121 Rov's Repentance. By Adeline Sar- 

gent 25 

182 A Harvest of Wild Oats. By Flor- 
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123 A My.stcry Still. By Fortune Dn 

Boisgobey 25 

1 24 Darby and Joan. By " Rita " 25 

125 The Minister's Secret. By Kate 

Tannatt Woods 25 

126 The Mystery of a Hansom Cab. By 

Fergus W. Hume 25 

127 The Wrong Road. By Major Arthur 

Griffiths 25 

123 Old Blazer's Hero. By David 
Christie Murray 25 

129 A Real Good Thing. By Mrs. Ed- 

ward Kennard 25 

130 Chris. By W. E. Norris 25 

131 Beautiful Jim. By John Strange 

Winter 25 

132 The Devil's Die. By Grant Allen. .25 

133 The Johnson Manor. By James 

Kent 25 

134 Sybil Spencer. By James Kent. ..25 

135 Hidden for Years. By Mrs. Kate 

Tannatt Woods 25 

136 A Glorious Gallop. By Mrs. Ken- 

nard 25 

137 Miracle Gold. By Richard Dow- 

ling 25 

138 Molly's Story. By Frank Merry- 

field 25 

139 Idle Talcs. By Mrs. Riddell 25 

140 My MisadventBre. By Frank Bar- 

rett 25 

141 The Heir of Linne. By Robert Bu- 

chanan 25 

142 A Woman's Face. By Florence 

Waitden 25 

143 The Legacy of Cain. By Wilkie 

Collins 25 

144 Beyond Compare. By Chas. Gib- 

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146 Mr. Meeson's Will. By H. Rider 

Haggard 25 

147 DiMia Barrington. By Mrs. John 

Cruker 25 

148 A Dead Past. By Mrs. H. Lovett 

Cameron 25 

149 The Fatal Three. By Miks M. E. 

Braddon 25 

150 Strange Adventures of a House 

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151 The Honorable Mrs. Vereker. By 

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152 Dr. Glennie's Daughter. . ..25 

153 Maivva'a Revenge. By H. Rider 

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154 The Great Amherst Mystery. By 

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155 Straight as a Die. By Mrs. Ed- 

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1.56 L.'d Astray. By Octave Feuillet. . . 25 

157 A Woman's Atonement. By Adah 

M. Howard 25 

158 Killed in the Open. By Mrs. Ed- 

ward Kennard 25 

160 Black Blood. By G. Manville Fenn.25 

161 The Girl in the Brown Habit. By 

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